make productive

Example Sentences

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But because she’s being dramatic, not cruel — right? — you do have room to make productive changes to your own choices here.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022

And we can make productive choices about the terms of the debate: Conflicts about coalition-building, supporting candidates or policies are a routine and desirable feature of a pluralistic democracy.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2019

"It has been frustrating," Kalebjian said, adding that he doesn't want to give up land that his parents worked so hard to make productive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2015

And he continues to make productive suggestions about the threat, recommending that victims of the disease be treated in a central site, manned by experts.

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2014

V. make productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; produce &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark